International Conference on Project Management Leadership 2004

Project Management Competency Mapping
Dhananjay Gokhale, PMP, Project by Net

Bangalore

Code: 502AH

Date: May 10

Venue: Hotel Taj Westend

You plan to hire a new project manager: how can you tell which candidate will perform best? You want to give some of your junior engineers project management training: how can you tell which ones are most likely to succeed at project management? You are reviewing proposals from several vendors for a project that is critical to your company's future: how can you tell if their project manager is competent?
A number of organizations try to define and document project manager competencies. Many factors like sound understanding of competencies, competency grades, facilitators' interviewing & inference skills, etc. play a very important role in such exercise. However, there is a much greater challenge of avoiding 'me too' mindset. The exercise must aim at bringing the best out of a project manager with honest efforts to help the pm successfully continuing the journey towards competency! The key is to go beyond mere processes and induce mapping exercise based on action oriented competency statements
The tutorial explains project management competency mapping exercise based on more than 230 action-oriented definitions of PM Competencies.

Dhananjay M. Gokhale, PMP is a most sought-after consultant and a trainer in the field of project management, with a proven track record. He heads Project Excellence Learning & Consulting Centre - a consulting arm of Compulink Systems Pvt. Ltd. Having assisted various organizations during the deployment of the web-based project management tools, systems and project management office; he has provided PM Competency Mapping services. He has successfully implemented Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) method for projects. With passion for project management coupled with excellent training and coaching skills, Dhananjay has designed and conducted value-adding trainings on PM in India's leading organizations; at a few places in Middle East as well as in India's reputed management institutes.